listen in

How To Use listen in In A Sentence

• 'If you sit down and listen in any moderately lucid state of mind the impression you have is of an old man muttering and ranting on in the aural foreground, while some young lads, engaged on some completely unrelated project, footle around with the controls on a mixing desk in the next room' FallNet - the punk foot of nose
• I listen in to their conversations and store it all up to tell you later.
• That key person needs to listen intently, take voluminous notes, and collect all class handouts, texts, and tests.
• Trusted devices may also encrypt the data that sabaton ringtones exchange over the airwaves so that no one can listen in. The Corridor (a cricket blog)
• It was an uplifting ceremony which saw a glisten in many an eye!
• Miss Pinkerton, the math teacher; writes problems and equations on the board, and I listen intently to her explanations.
• Listen in for the details of a life full of highs, lows and wonders that may seem to have changed a little bit in the retelling (i.e. being "electrocuted" by a stingray, or breaking a bone "right off my leg"), all of which certainly qualify him as "one in a hundred million! The Livin La Vida Low-Carb Show
• Not wishing to listen in, I performed in an uninhibited manner. Times, Sunday Times
• My mom sat back, quietly eating her dinner, but the glisten in her eyes was evident.
• She began easing over to the payphone, trying to listen in on his conversation.